Bug#1105728: netrek-client-cow: FTBFS with make --shuffle=random: config.h:310:33: fatal error: null: No such file or directory

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: netrek-client-cow
Version: 3.3.2-1
Severity: minor
Tags: trixie sid ftbfs
User: lucas at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-shuffle

Hi,

GNU Make now has a --shuffle option that simulates non-deterministic ordering
of target prerequisites. See
https://trofi.github.io/posts/238-new-make-shuffle-mode.html and also previous
work in Debian by Santiago Vila:
https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/make-shuffle/

This package fails to build with make --shuffle=random.
This is likely to be caused by a missing dependency in
debian/rules or an upstream Makefile.

More information about this mass bug filing is available at
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS/Shuffle

Relevant part (hopefully):
> gcc -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/netrek-client-cow-3.3.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -std=gnu89  -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c -o netstat.o netstat.c
> In file included from netstat.c:1:
> config.h:310:33: fatal error: null: No such file or directory
>   310 | #define NULLFILE                "null"
>       |                                 ^~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[2]: *** [<builtin>: netstat.o] Error 1 shuffle=3544073097


The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2025/05/05/shuffle/random/netrek-client-cow_3.3.2-1_unstable_random.log

If you reassign this bug to another package, please mark it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects